Robert G. Brown's General Tools Page

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poetry, various support materials for the study of physics, and links
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Added sed automagic so that version numbers and build date are set
in one place only (the Makefile) and updated to spec file and version.h.

Added gpg signatures to the rpm's.

Added a set of macros and targets to support the maintenance of
this website, including targets for "make tgz", "make rpm", "make yum"
and "make installweb". With these targets I can (re)build rpm's for
three or four architectures (e.g. RH 9, FC 2, FC 3, i386, x86_64,
Centos) and install them in yum repositories by "make yum;make
installweb" on each architecture from one set of sources.

Cleaned up the specfile in some trivial ways that may not be the
best ways to get clean builds on RH/FC-derived rpm systems.

These changes SHOULD NOT affect any other build targets or build
processes (with the possible exceptions of the specfile changes, where I
don't have enough distribution alternatives to test across all of them).
Either way, if you want a repository from which to mirror relatively
current signed jove rpm's, yum update jove rpms, grab a tarball of jove
that has the above make targets for your own local builds, feel free to
use this site.

I'm also willing to provide some debugging support if the
rpm's on this site don't work for you or rebuild for you. I have to
emphasize the some because I have a lot of projects and as long as jove
works for me, I'm happy and may be busy as well as happy. However, if
you encounter a bug or just need some help feel free to contact me at
rgb at phy.duke.edu.

The documents linked from this page are all provided under a
modified Gnu License appropriate for the document type (OPL for text, GPL for
software/source). Please read the relevant license(s) before
redistributing the document(s) in any form -- an explicit agreement with
the author is required for certain kinds of for-profit redistributions.
In all cases the license makes the documents generally available for
unlimited personal use and non-profit distributions (for example,
linking or posting copies on a website, distributing paper copies to a
class for free or at cost).

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any medium to be sold at a profit, would like to contribute or comment
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